Which patches to apply to source RPMs for a mini KDE?

[M. Fioretti]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 07:27:32 AM -0700, Michael A. Peters
(mpeters at mac.com) wrote: 
> On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 12:54 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I want to figure out how to install stable, already packaged
> > versions of only some KDE applications on a Fedora Core 3 system
> > which already has X and Qt.
[...]
> > The purpose is to build a mini-KDe desktop for basic SOHO
> > applications which has modern functionality (gpg, Khtml, Imap
> > OpenDocument support...) but is as light as possible on RAM and
> > hard drive.
> 
> Many apps are linked against libraries as a compile time detection - and
> the same package can be built so it is NOT linked against the libraries.
> 
> The way to do it is to remove the BuildRequires for those packages and
> build in mach - that way the resulting rpm's won't be linked against the
> optional libraries you don't want.
> 
> You also could disable the optional libraries explicitly in the spec
> spec file at the configure line.
> 

Michael,

Thanks for the prompt answer. I will experiment as you suggest, but
what did you exactly mean with the "build in mach" bit above? I
understand the rest of your message, but that piece of sentence
confused me...

Related question: is there anything I could read to understand a
priori, with the smallest number of trial and errors, what can be
unlinked? I am prepared to try them one at a time, if really needed,
but if there is a way around...

Thanks again,
       Marco


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